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The game is known for having surprisingly violent endings (for an eroge), with both murder and suicide being possible outcomes. Nothing of the sort has appeared in the anime as of episode 5.

As is probably worth pointing out...

Spoiler for frequency of said game endings:

...such violent endings are the exception not the rule in the game, composing only 3 of the 20+ endings. Because of the shock value, and because the game was animated, those three endings clips made a lot of rounds on the Internet, which lead many to mistakenly believe the game was "all about that".

Is this anime like Hagurishi? What's with the blades and knife and stuff...

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Originally Posted by Ultima_Rasengan05

same here, I've seen the images thread and theres a lot of Katsura pictures with her holding a knife...somewhat similar to what Rena uses...

I know your Q. are answered, but for more detail:

Spoiler for Bloddy game ending:

Katsura makes herself a b1tch becouse if she don't do that, she will lose Makoto (She will lose Makoto becouse of Sekai if she wasn' that). I don't know why or what makes Makoto to prefer Sekai and Kotonoha lose him. One day, Kotonoha makes herself a "USO DA!" girl, she taked a knife and kill Sekai.

Katsura makes herself a b1tch becouse if she don't do that, she will lose Makoto (She will lose Makoto becouse of Sekai if she wasn' that). I don't know why or what makes Makoto to prefer Sekai and Kotonoha lose him. One day, Kotonoha makes herself a "USO DA!" girl, she taked a knife and kill Sekai.

I've played the game a few times, and on my first try I actually got the Kotonoha saws Sekai ending . If you want to find out how I got it, read spoiler below

Spoiler:

The way I got it was letting Sekai do the tokkun (practise) just like in the anime. Then I asked to continue the tokkun. Somehow we end up at Sekai's place and continue and get a nice h-scene. It's kind of sweet as h-scenes go.

After that I do all the Sekai points actions and none of the Kotonoha points (the way the game works is at certain points you choose an action to do, or to do no action - whatever you do will either fill up the Sekai bar or the Kotonoha bar. This bar shows which girl you are closest with).

This usually means standing Kotonoha up for lunch etc. I also break up with Kotonoha and tell her I like Sekai instead. Kotonoha confronts Sekai and gets really mad. Sekai admits the relationship. Kotonoha slaps Sekai. At this point my Sekai bar is maximum and Kotonoha bar is zero.

Bad things happen to Kotonoha. Kotonoha becomes a stalker and spies on Makoto and Sekai making love often.

Kotonoha finally snaps and picks up a saw she finds outside Sekai's place.

I bet the "different version" you're referring to is probably the oft-confused Game Promo "episode". The game itself is animated, and 0verflow released the first "chapter" of the game as a video on their website. For some reason that defies all logical explanation, ANN continues to count that promo video as part of a "6-episode ONA" (where'd they get the 6 from?), and calls the TV series an "alternate retelling". It's just not true, but good luck convincing the ANN editors of that...

Katsura makes herself a b1tch becouse if she don't do that, she will lose Makoto (She will lose Makoto becouse of Sekai if she wasn' that). I don't know why or what makes Makoto to prefer Sekai and Kotonoha lose him. One day, Kotonoha makes herself a "USO DA!" girl, she taked a knife and kill Sekai.

Oh man... Poor Kotonoha...

that surely is a very shocking ending...but anyone thinks that this kind of outcome could be possible for the anime?

Location: In a peaceful, serene place at night, watching the beautiful stars twinkle in sight

I've already read the last posts, and even though it looks like it might have an unhappy ending, I was wondering if anyone knows or has figured out if the School Days TV series is actually a horror genre as well? Please tell me because I really don't want to see any of the people go mad in the show

Absolutely not.
School Days is your usual "school romance" show, with the particularity that it is far from lovey dovey, and a bit more "realist" (though i'm still suspicious about makoto's existence as "realist")

there is nothing paranormal/surnatural, nor anything scary at all. the aftermath might be creepy, but it is much like "flat" reality, than any scary fantasy at all.
If you have watched Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, you can say the mood and context are similar.

Why do anime makers insist on making an anime, School Days e.x, that has the focus of relationship/drama and produce such characters that are so unbelievable, untrue, and fictional, that they make anybody with an IQ above 80 want to not watch? The three main characters in School Days are according to me mentally challenged. Why must makers feed this stupid, immature, fictional crap down our throats all the time? Can we not have ONE relationship anime where the people act like they are not mentally handicapped? I know there are one or two, but just not enough. Anyways those were my questions.

I think it's pretty clear - idiots make good drama. Smart people know how to solve these situations better.

Also, you have to understand that the harem genre is a fanservice one. The target audience it's aimed at enjoys girls throwing themselves at the main character even if he's worthless.

There's a few exceptions in the harem genre, but in general this stuff happens a lot. More often than not, they don't do justice to the corresponding visual novels...can't speak for School Days because I haven't played it though, but it seems that people are happy enough with the conversion as Makoto was widely hated well before the anime either way.

Why do anime makers insist on making an anime, School Days e.x, that has the focus of relationship/drama and produce such characters that are so unbelievable, untrue, and fictional, that they make anybody with an IQ above 80 want to not watch? The three main characters in School Days are according to me mentally challenged. Why must makers feed this stupid, immature, fictional crap down our throats all the time? Can we not have ONE relationship anime where the people act like they are not mentally handicapped? I know there are one or two, but just not enough. Anyways those were my questions.

well you better stop watching now as for me im happy that my IQ is less than 80 :3

and i thought it was extreme when critting on their intelligence but boy you broke even that no i do not believe that they are unrealistic because crap like this can happen...maybe worse in fact but its just that most of the time no body cares about crap that can be avoided by onlookers (no i do not want to hear about how screwed my friend's relationships are etc )

as for the romance thing...guess not ~ its either some main character screws up or GTFO! being serious that is mainly the point as hardly anyone would want to watch a straight forward relationship planned to perfection (boring yawns ZZzzZZ) ~

relationship angst is the best way to fill those with needs (or are just sad like me )

Why do anime makers insist on making an anime, School Days e.x, that has the focus of relationship/drama and produce such characters that are so unbelievable, untrue, and fictional, that they make anybody with an IQ above 80 want to not watch? The three main characters in School Days are according to me mentally challenged. Why must makers feed this stupid, immature, fictional crap down our throats all the time? Can we not have ONE relationship anime where the people act like they are not mentally handicapped? I know there are one or two, but just not enough. Anyways those were my questions.

It's not as far from reality as you might imagine. There are the stereotypical girls who'll always fall for the bastard, no matter how badly he treats them. There are also plenty of idiots like Makoto out there, plenty, plenty. Probably a lot more Makotos than Kotos. Add to the mix that these characters are what, 17?

I think they're fairly unrealistic, at least. Usually when girls throw themselves at a jerk, the jerk is at least a sweet talker. Or they are airheads but then they're not in for the serious stuff - in which case they wouldn't go for a clueless guy anyway.

Makoto's quite a loser, and Kotonoha and Sekai don't really fit that profile.

I don't think the fact that Makoto's 16-17 is a good enough excuse - some more maturity is expected when you're that age. Moreover, I don't know absolutely anyone like him who has had any success with girls, ever. Especially good looking ones.